Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by dodobirdlord on Sunday November 08, 2020 @01:40AM
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The first one is a good example. The second one is about a mentally ill British man whose "assassination attempt" never had any chance of success.
Should we count as political violence the plot to kill Barack Obama with a "death ray"? I think there's a distinction to be drawn between political violence and crazy people being crazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_B...
Interestingly, reading the pages you linked and dredging up the Death Ray link induced me to notice that (1) the previous shooting of a Congressperson was by a right-wing terrorist, and (2) that page about Obama recounts something like 6 very real plots to kill him mixed in among a bunch of variously mentally ill people being delusional. I think it's pretty clear which way the wind blows here.
There were also assassination attempts from the other side:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Donald_Trump_Las_Vegas_ra...